Old Hungarian Fairy Tales

Old Hungarian Fairy Tales
Old Hungarian Fairy Tales  
Cover of the 1895 1st edition
1895 1st edition
Author(s) Baroness Orczy
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher Dean & Son/Wolf & Co.
Publication date 1895
ISBN NA

Old Hungarian Fairy Tales was edited and translated from the Hungarian by Baroness Orczy (creator of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series), in 1895.

The illustrations in the book were provided by her husband, Montagu Barstow, who she married in 1894.

Stories include:

  • Uletka and the White Lizard
  • The Suitors of the Fire Fly
  • The Twin Hunchbacks
  • Mr Cuttlefish's Love Story
  • Forget-me-not
  • The Enchanted cat
  • The Wishing Skin and
  • That's Not True

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